I love to hear Paul tell how far God has brought us by his grace. In Colossians 1:21 he points out that the believers of Colossae, and we modern Christians, were involved in evil actions and hostile attitudes. By Jesus’ death on the cross all of that evil, all of that rebellion, all of our past that were focused on meeting our own selfish desires was removed from us. Jesus made us “holy and blameless and above reproach” when we stand before God. How can God take something that at one moments was repulsive and contemptible and then make it pure in the next moment? By applying the blood of Jesus to the life of the believer. That action not only take away the penalty of sin, but it takes away the presence of sin in our lives. I don’t understand how that can happen. But I know that God wants me to accept the fact that he has done that.
It took me about 7 minutes to read this passage.
Stuart
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